The "How do I..." Thread

[loismustdie555]

How can I get and return the damagetype in acs?

Something like this;
str type = damagetype[notsurewhatgoesehere];
int deathtype = strparam(s:"Death.", s:type);


But I'm not entirely sure how to go about storing damage types...
Can someone help me with this?
Or is what I'm trying to do not possible?

[edward850]

It's not possible. Damage types aren't actually strings, for starters.

[loismustdie555]

How do I use hudmessage to display the count of an item in the player inventory?

[XCVG]

Is there a way to move the player to an arbitrary location? SetActorPosition doesn't seem to work.

EDIT: I hacked around it by spawning a teleport destination, but this seems like an ugly way to do it, so my question still remains.

[edward850]

Is there a way to move the player to an arbitrary location? SetActorPosition doesn't seem to work.

EDIT: I hacked around it by spawning a teleport destination, but this seems like an ugly way to do it, so my question still remains.

SetActorPosition is one of the many ways you can do it, so something else is wrong with how you've done it.

How do I use hudmessage to display the count of an item in the player inventory?

d:[wiki]CheckInventory[/wiki]("Shell")

[DoomKrakken]

Just in case this got buried...

It's been edited, btw...

Still working on the Brutal Guncaster patch. I have a couple things to ask...

Firstly, I want the Pulverizer, Strucker, and Longhorn to fire tracer projectiles. I'm using the A_FireCustomMissile command to do it.

I'm not entirely sure how it works though... I want those weapons to have the same kind of spread as they normally do, however, I cannot find anything in the A_FireCustomMissile command that relates to the "angle spread_horz" and "angle spread_vert" variables in A_FireBullets.

For example... the Strucker has a horizontal spread of 7 and a vertical spread of 3 (I think). How would I make the tracer projectiles have that spread?

Secondly, I have a new idea on how Corpseblast should work in Brutal Guncaster (since the way it originally works doesn't work in Brutal Doom).

I was thinking that the spell would deal 1 damage (with damagetypes Corpseblast, or Corspeblast2 if tomed, assigned to them), and every actor but the corpses would have DamageFactor "Corpseblast", 0.0 and DamageFactor "Corpseblast2", 0.0. The corpses themselves would probably have DamageFactor "Corpseblast", 50000; DamageFactor "Corpseblast2", 0.0; DamageFactor "Flesh", 0.0; and PainChance "Corpseblast2", 255.

That being said, if the corpse actor is hit with "Corpseblast", then it'll go to Death.Corpseblast, and from there, spawn the corresponding blasted corpse actor. If hit with a tomed Corpseblast, "Corpseblast2", then the corpse actor will go to Pain.Corpseblast2, so that it doesn't die when it spawns the corresponding blasted corpse actor. My question here is what part of the Corpseblast DECORATE code should deal the damage in the first place?

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ACTOR CorpseEffect
{
	+NOINTERACTION
	+NOGRAVITY
	+NOTONAUTOMAP
	States
	{
	Spawn:
	TNT1 AA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("CorpseEffectSpawner")
	TNT1 A 20
	Stop
	}
}

ACTOR CorpseEffectPart
{
	+NOINTERACTION
	+NOGRAVITY
	+NOTONAUTOMAP
	Scale 0.35
	Alpha 0.99
	Renderstyle Add
	States
	{
	Spawn:
	TNT1 A 0
	Sprite:
	RPRT A 0 A_Jump(256,"Main")
	Main:
	"####" "#" 0 A_JumpIf(ScaleX <= 0,"NULL")
	"####" "#" 0 A_FadeOut(frandom(0.02,0.04))
	"####" "#" 0 A_ChangeVelocity(0,0,frandom(-0.1,0.15),CVF_RELATIVE)
	"####" "#" 1 Bright A_SetScale(ScaleX-frandom(0.03,0.02),ScaleY+frandom(0.01,0.02))
	Loop
	}
}

ACTOR CorpseEffectSpawner
{
	+NOINTERACTION
	+NOGRAVITY
	+NOTONAUTOMAP
	var int User_Count1;
	var int User_Count2;
	States
	{
	Spawn:
	TNT1 AA 0 A_SetUserVar("User_Count1",30)
	Looplet1:
	TNT1 A 0 A_SetUserVar("User_Count1", User_Count1 - 1)
	TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(User_Count1 <= 0, "Phase2")
	TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("CorpseEffectPart",random(60,-60),random(60,-60),random(50,-30),frandom(1.0,-1.0),frandom(1.0,-1.0),0,random(0,360),SXF_CLIENTSIDE,20)
	Loop
	Phase2:
	TNT1 AA 0 A_SetUserVar("User_Count2",10)
	Looplet2:
	TNT1 A 0 A_SetUserVar("User_Count2", User_Count2 - 1)
	TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(User_Count2 <= 0, "NULL")
	TNT1 A 1 A_SpawnItemEx("CorpseEffectPart",random(30,-30),random(30,-30),random(40,-40),frandom(1.0,-1.0),frandom(1.0,-1.0),0,random(0,360),SXF_CLIENTSIDE,20)
	Loop
	}
}

Actor CorpseBlaster : CustomInventory
{
	Inventory.Amount 1
	Inventory.MaxAmount 1
	+INVENTORY.AUTOACTIVATE
	+INVENTORY.ALWAYSPICKUP
	States
	{
	Spawn:
	TNT1 A -1
	Stop
	Pickup:
	Use:
	TNT1 A 0 A_CheckFlag("CORPSE","Yus")
	Stop
	Yus:
	TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("CorpseTrigger",1)
	Stop
	}
}

Actor CorpseTrigger : Inventory { Inventory.MaxAmount 1 }

//Tomed
Actor CorpseBlaster2 : CustomInventory
{
	Inventory.Amount 1
	Inventory.MaxAmount 1
	+INVENTORY.AUTOACTIVATE
	+INVENTORY.ALWAYSPICKUP
	States
	{
	Spawn:
	TNT1 A -1
	Stop
	Pickup:
	Use:
	TNT1 A 0 A_CheckFlag("CORPSE","Yus")
	Stop
	Yus:
	TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("CorpseTrigger2",1)
	Stop
	}
}

Actor CorpseTrigger2 : Inventory { Inventory.MaxAmount 1 }

Thanks.

P.S.: Can an actor go into a pain state from another actor that deals no damage to it?

[loismustdie555]

In my mod it doesn't seem to want to refresh the count.
Am I doing something wrong?

script 3794 OPEN
{
HudMessage(s:"XP: ",d:CheckInventory("555PointDummy");1,4,CR_GREEN, 0, 2, 0.1, 0.8, 3.7);
Delay(1);
Restart;
}

[edward850]

Yes. The world doesn't have an inventory, so an OPEN script is obviously not what you want, there.

[loismustdie555]

Yes. The world doesn't have an inventory, so an OPEN script is obviously not what you want, there.

I assumed an ENTER script?

It doesn't work either

[edward850]

You've missed something, because it works absolutely fine.

[loismustdie555]

You've missed something, because it works absolutely fine.

I had 555PointDummy as custominventory, I set it to ammo and it worked fine.

[zrrion the insect]

How would I add an intro sequence to a wad?
I'm looking for something similar to the intro for strife, but using a mapinfo intermission doesn't seem the way to go as Inter_Strife_Intro is commented out in mapinfo/strife.txt. Am I missing something?

[Vincent(PDP)]

I had 555PointDummy as custominventory, I set it to ammo and it worked fine.

Also see the Inventory class.

[Barrelsofun]

Okay, I am really stumped. How do I make it so an actor enters a pain state when players and only players touch it and change the target to them for an A_GiveToTarget. I spent 2 days trying to figure this out yet I can't.

[kodi]

Use these flags:
BUMPSPECIAL
THINGSPEC_ThingTargets
and set the actors action special to ACS_EXECUTE, pointing to a script which contains GiveActorInventory(0, "Bumpcounter",1);
Then have your custom inventory item "bumpcounter" put it's carrier into a custom pain2 or something state where an A_GiveToTarget is executed.

I haven't tested this though, but I believe it should work. Rather convoluted, and there might be some other, obvious way I'm not seeing.